Medieval Studies M.A. Theses

Christine de Pizan Writing

British Library, Harley 4431, f. 259v.
c. 1410-1414
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The M.A. thesis is the capstone experience of the M.A. degree in Medieval Studies. It is normally an expanded version of a paper that a student has already written for a graduate course, written under the supervision of a faculty mentor.

The thesis includes original research, is normally 35-75 double-spaced pages long, and follows the M.A. MVST thesis guidelines. Below are examples of the wide range of topics pursued by M.A. students.


Recent Theses (2025)

The Reckoning of Medieval English Navigation
By Elizabeth Duchovni
Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
Reader: Asif Siddiqi

Operationalizing the Practice of Space in the Fabliaux: The Database of Staged Fabliaux
By Elias Holmquist
Mentor: Brian J. Reilly
Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

The "Privilegio" of Santa Maria de Valdeiglesias [Hsa B16]: Its Production, Use, and Significance
By Meredith McLaughlin 
Mentor: Nicholas Paul
Reader: Nina Rowe

"When they Started Destruction in the Face": Resilience and the Religious Communities of the Principality of Antioch, 1180-1268
By Frances Seabrook
Mentor: Nicholas Paul
Reader: George Demacopoulos

In Her Own Right: A Story of Power and Its Consequences. The Development of an Interactive Fiction Game to Explore the Contested History of Medieval Noblewoman
By Emily Varker
Mentor: Nicholas Paul
Reader: M. Christina Bruno

  • The Invention of a Holy Kingdom: The Cult of Saint Helena, the True Cross, and their uses in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem
    By Benjamin Hausman (2024)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: George Demacopoulos

    Cloth at a Crossroads: The Social and Economic Activity of Drapers in Peralada, 1297-1308
    By James Terrasi (2024)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Comuzzi
    Reader: Lluís To Figueras (University of Girona)

    Where There's a Will: Bequests to Monastic and Mendicant Orders and their Members in Late Medieval London
    By Olivia Caroline Geraci (2024)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Mary Erler

    Vaðmál" Cloth Currency and Systems of Labor and Extraction in Medieval Iceland
    By Taryn DeLeon Mendiola (2024)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Comuzzi
    Reader: Nicholas Paul                                                                                               
    Adviser: Laurel Ann Wilson

    The Course to Wisdom: the Curriculum in the Thought of Augustine of Hippo, Hugh of St. Victor, and Bonaventure of Bagnoregio
    By Katherine Tweedel (2024)
    Mentor: Christopher Cullen
    Reader: Giorgio Pini

    The Ornamentation of Women: An Edition and Translation of the 13th-Century Ornatus Mulierum written in the French of England
    By Rebecca Weiss-Horowitz (2023)
    Mentor: Brian Reilly
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    Suau parlem: Musicological Lacunae and Women's Voices in Occitan Chansonnier R (Paris, BnF f.fr. 22543) and G (Milan, Bibliotheca Ambrosiana R.71 sup.)
    By Alana Kilcoyne (2023)
    Mentor: Thomas O'Donnell
    Reader: Andrew Albin

    The Form and Function of History in the Tradition of Latin Frankish Historiography
    By John Keirouz (2023)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Scott Bruce

    Feminine Agency and Temporal Asynchrony in Middle English Arthurian Romance
    By Mark Host (2023)
    Mentor: Andrew Albin
    Reader: Susanne Hafner

    "Mi bodi henge wið þi bodi": Dying with Christ in the Anchorhold
    By E. Alice Grissom (2023)
    Mentor: Andrew Albin
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    "In Good Faith and Without Bad Intention": The 1191 Conquest of Cyprus in Medieval Mediterranean Political Cultures
    By Daniel J Berardino (2023)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Teresa Shawcross

  • Duking it Out: Chess, War, and Chivalry in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium ac popularium super luda schachorum and the Anonymous Romance of Fulk fitz-Warin
    By Trevor Nau (2022)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Susanne Hafner

    Class, Labor, and Belonging in Sixth-Century Italian Monasteries
    By Matthew Salvatore Maresca (2022)
    Mentor: Scott Bruce
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Digital Humanities and Collaborative Research in Medieval Studies: Crowdsourcing the Get to Know Medieval Londoners Project
    By Grace Campagna (2022)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Monster, Marvel, Man: Saint Denis and the Miracle of Cephalophory
    By Isabelle Bunten (2022)
    Mentor: Nina Rowe
    Reader: Scott Bruce

    Seasonal Expressions in Hunting Manuals: Climate and Conquest in Alfonso XI's Libro de la monteria
    By Camila Marcone (2021)
    Mentor: Brian Reilly
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    A Debt Unpaid: Proving Impotence in Late Medieval Ecclesiastical Court
    By Frances Eshleman (2021)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    The Aesthetics of St. Augustine of Hippo: Beauty, Creation, and Poetry
    By Alex Pisano (2020)
    Mentor: Christopher Cullen
    Reader: Joseph Lienhard

    Bonaventure on the Fall of Lucifer
    By Mikayla Fenly (2020)
    Mentor: Christopher Cullen
    Reader: Giorgio Pini

    The Development of the Mayoralty in Medieval English Towns
    By David Howes (2020)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Knyghthode and Bataile: An Update of the Early English Text Society Edition
    By Linea Kemsley (2020)
    Mentor: Brian Reilly
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

  • A Case Study of Politeness: Marriage and Social Hierarchy in the World of Chretien de Troyes
    By Marco Damiano (2019)
    Mentor: Brian Reilly
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Apothecaries in Medieval London 1250-1500
    By Christie Olek (2019)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

    The Role of Penance in Anglo-Saxon Law: 1016-1036
    By Thomas Lobitz (2019)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Less is More: Eunuchs, Self-Castration, Spiritual Eunuchism, and Mystical Castration from Tertullian to Cassian
    By Galina Krasskova (2019)
    Mentor: Andrew Albin
    Reader: Robert Davis

    Servants to the Poor: Women's Work in Medieval English Hospitals
    By Ashley Newby (2019)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

    The Policratus: a Bridge between New and Old Learning
    By John C. Evans (2019)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    The Harkness Gospels: The Splendor Between Provincialism and Pride of Place
    By Michael Weldon (2018)
    Mentor: Susanne Hafner
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    "Sancte Martialis, redde nobis aquam:" The Pedagogical Function of Water in Geoffrey of Vigeois' Chronicle
    By Jacob Prescott (2018)
    Mentor: Thomas O'Donnell
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Ferries, Waterways and the Medieval English Transport Network
    By Stephen G. Powell (2018)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Seeking Perfection in an Imperfect World: Franciscan Identity and Attitudes to Power
    By Gordon Nicholas Courtney (2018)
    Mentor: Robert Davis
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    The Earliest Mystical Marriage of St Katherine in England? A Translation and Commentary
    By Sarah Kam-Gordon (2018)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Brian Reilly

    Seals, Devotion, and Gender in the Religious Houses of Medieval England
    By Christina Stith (2018)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Marilyn Oliva

    The Roaring Lion and the Horse of God: The Enigma of the Evangelist Portraits in the Harkness Gospels (New York Public Library MA 115)
    By Violetta Barbashina (2017)
    Mentor: Susanne Hafner
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    Glossing the Body of the Text: Authority and the Margins of the Wife of Bath's Prologue
    By Katherine Briant (2017)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester

    The Case Against the Exception: Jurisprudence in Twelfth-Century Ireland
    By Kasey Fausak (2017)
    Mentor: Dr. Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    "ought he of right to be so good a knyght?": The Idea of Genealogy and Reading the Noble in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
    By David Smigen-Rothkopf (2017)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

  • Drama in Residence: Performative Texts in Medieval Household Compilations
    By Elyse Levesque (2016)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    Animated by Pious Zeal: the Cult of Carts and the Oxen of Laon Cathedral
    By Alexa Sue Amore (2016)
    Mentor: Nina Rowe
    Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

    Consensu Genetricis: Monarchy, Authority, and Family in the Medieval Mediterranean
    By Anna Claire Lukyanova (2016)
    Mentor: Alex J. Novikoff
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Textual Inheritance: A Means for Agency for Elite Women in English Books of Hours
    By Heather V. Hill (2016)
    Mentor: Alex J. Novikoff
    Reader: Laura K. Morreale

    The Old French Chronique de Normandie and the Politics, Theory and Practice of Norman Historiography, c. 1200
    By Alexander Profaci (2016)
    Mentor: Alex J. Novikoff
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Clerks for Hire: The Working Life of Late Medieval English Guild Chaplains
    By Joe Madonna (2016)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Janine Peterson

    Pollution, Penance, and Perfection: Sexual Incontinence of Clerics in the Penitentials
    By Melissa Kapitan (2015)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

    Rude Mechanicals?: Local Players in Six Southeastern Towns, 1450-1550.
    By Jacqueline Tralies (2015)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Mary Erler

    According to the Custom of the Manor: Customary Inheritance in Medieval England
    By Abigail Sargent (2015)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    The Poets, the Historians, and the Peculiar Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris
    By Joseph Rudolph (2015)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Suzanne Yeager

    The Customs of Romney Marsh: Compromise and Common Interest in Wetland Administration
    By Tobias Hrynick (2015)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Late Medieval English Bedchamber
    By Rachel Butcher (2015)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    Flotan on þam Folce: The Battle of Maldon in Its Own Time
    By Chris Rolka (2015)
    Mentor: Martin Chase
    Reader: Suzanne Yeager

    No Does Not Always Mean No, Boys Will Be Boys, and the Devil Made Me Do It: Sexual Agency in the Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso, el Sabio
    By Amy Hall (2014)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Susanne Hafner

    The Languages of Labor in the Works of John Gower
    By Sarah O'Brien (2014)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    Gentrifying the Neighborhood: Cornish Office Holders in the Age of the Wars of the Roses
    By Madelyn Burt (2014)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Crowdsourcing Digital Archives of Medieval Manuscripts: A New Method
    By Allison McCormack (2014)
    Mentor: Erick Kelemen
    Reader: Susanne Hafner

    Nature's Musa Jocosa: An Ecocritical Reading of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini
    By Michael Diaz della Portilla (2014)
    Mentor: Thomas O'Donnell
    Reader: Andrew Albin

    Copes and Opus Anglicanum: The History, Use, and Decline of a Medieval Art
    By Jennifer Eckert (2014)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

    Women as the Key to Improving a Family's Reputation: Women in The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres
    By Alison Schultz (2014)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul|
    Reader: Richard Gyug

  • "This was found in an olde written booke:" An Edition of Fols. 1-32 of Columbia University Library Plimpton MS 259, A Late Medieval Miscellany
    By Louisa Foroughi (2013)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: J. Patrick Hornbeck

    Neumes of Genres and the Genres of Singers: The Earliest Irish Notation from the Drummond Missal
    By Brian Glasenapp (2013)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    Canonical Thought in Teutonic Order Literature: Just Warfare and the Chronicle of Prussia
    By Jeffrey Sullebarger (2013)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Guido de Monte Rocherii's 'Manipulus Curatorum': the Dissemination of a Manual for Parish Priests in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
    By Alisa Beer (2013)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: J. Patrick Hornbeck

    Tracing Heretics: Procedure and Function in the 1273-1282 Toulouse Depositions
    By Brittany Poe (2013)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Muslim Antagonism Against the Jews of Eleventh-Century Granada: A Reassessment
    By James Henkel (2013)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Kathryn Kueny

    An Italian Renaissance in Tours: Federico d'Aragona and the Workshop of Giovanni Todeschino, Jean Bourdichon, and the Master of Claude de France
    By Kiley Samz (2013)
    Mentor: Gregory Waldrop, SJ
    Reader: Elizabeth Parker

    "On Surryens to taken heigh vengeance": Geography, History, and Fourteenth-Century Crusading Ideals in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale                                                                                                                                                        By Micheal Laney (2012)
    Mentor: Suzanne Yeager
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Pierpont Morgan Library MS B.21: A New Edition of English Metric Herbal Verse 2627 Of herbs twenty-three
    By Jamie Sanford (2012)
    Mentor: Erick Kelemen
    Reader: Susanne Hafner

    Marvelous Machines in Court: Conceiving Automata and Constructing Identity in the Courts of the Burgundian Dukes
    By Scott Miller (2012)
    Mentor: Nina Rowe
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    "To carry forth such a carl at close him in silver:" Monstrous Saints and Heroes in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
    By Uta Ayala (2012)
    Mentor: Mary Erler
    Reader: Suzanne Yeager

    A Troubadour As Historian: Philip of Novara and the Reframing of the Pullani in the Thirteenth Century Romance World
    By Christopher Rose (2012)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    "Contre Nature": The Rhetorical Uses of Queerness in the Works of Christine de Pizan
    By Allen Strouse (2012)
    Mentor: Susan Dudash
    Reader: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

    Producing and Perceiving Piety: The Senses and Performance in Clemence of Barking's The Life of Saint Catherine and Related Texts
    By Sarah Townsend (2012)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Thomas O'Donnell

    "To do the to be wyten as well in Englande": Robert Wyer and the Anglicization of Christine de Pizan's Epistle of Othea
    By Caitlin Barr (2012)
    Mentor: Erick Kelemen
    Reader: Susan Dudash

    "Sey this": Unpublished Latin Charms in Plimpton Add. MS 02
    By Marjorie Harrington (2011)
    Mentor: Susanne Hafner
    Reader: Patrick Hornbeck

    Lay and Ecclesiastical Powers and the Literature of the Court of Matilda, Countess of Tuscany: John of Mantua's Commentary on the Song of Songs
    By William Little (2011)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    The Economy of Devotion: The Parish of Tilney, All Saints, Norfolk
    By Alexandra Christine Plante (2011)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Mary Erler

    Epistolae duorum amantium: A Reconsideration of the Purpose of Writing
    By Hannah Behrens (2011)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

    Paul Albar’s Apocalyptic Theology in the Indiculus Luminosus
    By Margaret Gurewitz (2010)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: George Demacopoulos

    Ambiguous Locations: Displacement, Multilocationality and Eschatology in Victricius’ De laude sanctorum
    By Nicholas Laccetti (2010)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Franklin Harkins

    In Chase of Virtue: Morgan Library M.1044 and the Redemption of Aristocratic Hunting
    By Kathryn Treadway (2010)
    Mentor: Susanne Hafner
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    Dispute Processing in Béroul's Tristran and Yseut
    By Paul Poppleton (2010)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Richard Gyug

  • Further Thoughts on a Roll Manuscript of the Fifteen Oes of St. Bridget: A Critical Treatment of Plimpton Addition MS 04
    By Peter Matthew-Sorensen Slonina, I (2009)
    Mentor: Susanne Hafner
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    London Arms and Armor-Makers in the Fourteenth Century: A Portrait of a Medieval Industrial Sector
    By Richard P. Hresko (2009)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Corruption as a Social, Political, and Religious Concept in the Later Roman Legal Codes
    By Kevin Mallon (2009)
    Mentor: Nicholas Paul
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    This Hero Has Been Edited for Content: Alterations to the Agency of the Anglo-Saxon Judas
    By Adele Metrakos-Ramadanis (2009)
    Mentor: Martin Chase, SJ
    Reader: Suzanne Yeager

    The Importation of Books into London, 1450-1540
    By Yvonne Rode (2009)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Mary C. Erler

    Wealth and Status in Pre-Plague London: A Prosopography of the 1319 Lay Subsidy Taxpayers
    By Anna M. Moscatiello (2009)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    Perspectives on Revenancy in the Twelfth Century: Tales of the Living Dead in William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum Anglicarium and Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium
    By Christine James (2008)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Nicholas Paul

    The Virtue of Good Taste: A Translation of Antonio Roselli's De Ornatu Mulierum with Historical and Historiographical Commentary
    By M. Christina Bruno (2008)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Christian Chic and Roman Refinement: The Fourth Century Romano-British Villa Mosaics at Hinton St. Mary
    By Lauren Teresa (2008)
    Mentor: Kim Bowes
    Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

    "Because it contains nothing but the truth": Issues of Truth and Authenticity in The Travels of Marco Polo and The Travels of John Mandeville
    By Rachel Liptak (2007)
    Mentor: Suzanne Yeager
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    A Call for Paving: Pavage Grants and the Development of Street Paving in Medieval England
    By Edward Harvey (2007)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    The Good, the Bad and the Oral: A Re-reading of the Glosses of Caedmon's Hymn
    By James Manning (2007)
    Mentor: Martin Chase, SJ
    Reader: Mary Ramsey

    Entering a Community of Consumption: Christian Identity and the Perception of “Jewishness” in the Cloisters Crucifixion Group Altarpiece
    By Sarah Celentano (2007)
    Mentor: Nina Rowe
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    An Apology for the Plimpton MS 284, Fragments of the Roman de la Rose
    By Julie Fifelski (2007)
    Mentor: Nina Rowe
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    "That They May Return to Their Former Works.” Reform of the Catholic Church Through the Renewal of Traditional Catholic Practices According to Blessed Pierre Favre, SJ (1506-1546)
    By J. Patrick Hough, SJ (2006)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Mark Lewis, SJ

    Bishops Kings and Kin: Canon Law in Gregory of Tours’ History
    By Jessie Spressart (2006)
    Mentor: Wolfgang Mueller
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Aquinas and Bonaventure: Two Medieval Theories of Divine Simplicity
    By John Peter Spear (2006)
    Mentor: Christopher Cullen, SJ
    Reader: Joseph Koterski, SJ

    The Unity of Augustine’s Search for True Happiness in The Confessions
    By Kevin Lynam (2006)
    Mentor: Christopher Cullen, SJ
    Reader: Joseph Koterski, SJ

    Bastards or Princes? Hidden Illegitimacy in the Portraits of Anthony of Burgundy and Francisco d’Este
    By Carolyn Salter (2006)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Libby Parker

    The Reputation of Joanna I of Naples
    By Ann Aisha Qureshi (2006)
    Mentor: Daniel Smail
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    The Tangibility of Talk: Witness Testimony in the Canonization Proceeding of Peter of Luxembourg
    By Kristin Uscinski (2006)
    Mentor: Daniel Smail
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Bringing Home the Passion of Christ: Eleventh-Century French Copies of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
    By Kristin Canzano (2005)
    Mentor: Kim Bowes
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    The Early Christian Sarcophagus: Christian Storytelling on a Pagan Stage
    By Heather Burns (2005)
    Mentor: Kim Bowes
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    Reading a Saint: The Case of St. Juliana of the Katherine Group
    By Dawn Ritchotte (2005)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Katherine Little

    The Word Incarnate and the Textual Authority of Women
    By Morgan Franck (2005)
    Mentor: Mary Erler
    Reader: Marilyn Oliva

    The Late Medieval German Pieta in Context
    By Mary Halbach (2004)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
    Reader: Nina Rowe

    Sudden and Un-Glorified: Late Medieval Manuscript Evidence of the Obsession with Death
    By Jordan Rosana (2004)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

  • Prelate, Lady, Jew: Two Letters Connecting Three Groups in Thirteenth-Century England
    By Andrea Allison Lankin (2003)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Joseph Pearson

    John of Gaunt's Urban Affinity in Fourteenth-Century Norfolk
    By Louisa P. Wilson
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Marilyn Oliva

    History and Romance in Paris, Biblioteque Nationale, f. fr. 1450
    By Denise Lynn Griggs
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Thelma Fenster

    Sex, Status, and Society: Gendered Morality in the Fifteenth-Century Diocese of Salisbury
    By Katharine Brown (2003)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Marilyn Oliva

    The Crib of Their Lord: Beguines, Mendicants, and Devotion in Fifteenth-Century Flanders
    By Maureen E. Horgan (2002)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
    Reader: Martin Chase, SJ

    Peace, War, and Murder: Pre- to Post-Conquest Literary Women and Violence
    By Kimberly Benard (2002)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Martin Chase, SJ

    The Influence of and Legacy of the Spiritual Martyrdom of St. Columba of Iona
    By Jennifer Scully (2002)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Joseph Lienhard, SJ

    Foundress, Lover and Widow: Representations of Dido from Antiquity through the Middle Ages
    By Abigail J. Weinberg (2002)
    Mentor: Thelma Fenster
    Reader: John R. Clark

    Saints and the Social Order: An Examination of Alexander Barclay's 'Life of St. George'
    By Melissa Gallup (2001)
    Mentor: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
    Reader: Mary Erler

    Emendations and Analyses of Oresme, Thabit, and Sacrobosco in Beinecke MS. 335
    By Kristina Bohl (2001)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: Dominic Balestra

    Pierpont Morgan Library MS M4 and Magdalene College, Cambridge MS Pepys 2011: The Scribe in Fifteenth-Century Vernacular Manuscript Production
    By Joanne Filippone (2001)
    Mentor: Mary Erler
    Reader: Elizabeth Parker

    Reflections of Architecture and Religion in the Late Fourteenth Century Poem Patience
    By Theresa O. Fleming (2001)
    Mentor: Mary Erler
    Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

    Love Bound by Doctrine: Andreas Capellanus and the Codification of Romance
    By Annika Farber (2001)
    Mentor: John Clark
    Reader: Thelma Fenster

    Reflections of Cultural Attitudes in Didactic Techniques: The Stratification of Glosses in Beinecke MS. 332
    By Janine Larmon Peterson (2001)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: M. Michele Mulchahy

    Heaven, Earth, and the Terra Sancti Benedicti: Miracles in the Dialogi de Miraculis Sancti Benedicti by Desiderius of Montecassino
    By Julian Hendrix (2001)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Wolfgang Mueller

    Labourers Asserting Themselves: Labour Mobility in Post-Black Death Lincolnshire
    By Daniel Bornstein (2000)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Daniel Smail

    Conversio Militum: Knightly Piety in the Life and Letters of St. Bernard
    By Jason Teves (2000)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Anne Mannion

    Pierpont Morgan Library MS. 487: A Multi-Generational Family Book of Hours
    By Christine Clark (2000)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: Elizabeth Clarke

    A Liturgical Crib and Women's Spirituality in Fifteenth-Century Louvain
    By Kimberly Samuels (2000)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Parker
    Reader: Maryanne Kowaleski

    Jousts of War: Chivalric Ritual on the Battlefield
    By Rebecca Slitt (2000)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Dan Smail

    Language Studies in the Curricular Reform of Roger Bacon
    By George Pehrson (1999)
    Mentor: Louis Pascoe, SJ
    Reader: Richard Gyug

    Wonders of the East: A Translation of Cotton Vitellius A.xv Text with Commentary
    By Damian Fleming (1999)
    Mentor: John Kezel
    Reader: Martin Chase, SJ

    Tradition and Innovation: Language and Procedure in the Disputing Activity of Bernard of Clairvaux
    By Michael Morbach (1999)
    Mentor: Daniel Smail
    Reader: John Clark

    The Audiences of Middle English Romances
    By Katrin Sjursen (1999)
    Mentor: Richard Horvath
    Reader: Thelma Fenster

    Context and Anthology: The MS Banco Rari 217 and Thirteenth-Century Italian Lyric
    By Rob Vosburgh (1999)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: Attilo Motta

    New York Public Library De Ricci ms. 60: The Production, Provenance and Use of a Late Medieval Book of Hours
    By Heather A. Wightman (1999)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: Elizabeth Clarke

  • The Tomb of Ansurez: Its Cluniac Iconography Reconsidered
    By Michael S. Carlin (1998)
    Mentor: Joel Herschman
    Reader: Elizabeth Parker

    Ramwold's Reform: The Customary of St. Emmeram and the Gorze Movement
    By Steven A. Schoenig (1998)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Louis B. Pascoe

    Morgan M. 538 and the Use of the Vernacular in a 16th-Century Book of Hours
    By Katherine Yeska (1998)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: John Clark

    A Gendered Reading of the Medieval Romance: The Masculine Identity in Chretien, Malory, and Gawaine
    By Ilan Mitchell-Smith (1998)
    Mentor: Richard Horvath
    Reader: Jennifer Goodman

    Punctuation Systems in the Codex Egberti
    By Andrew Barron Holmgren (1997)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: John Clark

    Chaos and Order in Landulph Senior's Historiae Mediolanensis
    By Suzanne Gillespie (1997)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: Daniel Smail

    The Manuscript Culture of Bodley 130
    By Sarah Hull (1997)
    Mentor: H. Wayne Storey
    Reader: John Clark

    Categories of Description in the Liber Sancti Jacobi
    By Suzanne J. Clune (1997)
    Mentor: Daniel Smail
    Reader: H. Wayne Storey

    The St. Martial Trope Repertory: Sources in Historical Context
    By Laura Morreale (1996)
    Mentor: Richard Gyug
    Reader: H. Wayne Storey

    The Tin Industry of Early Fourteenth-Century Cornwall: Miners, Merchants, and Entrepreneurs
    By Brian Klinzing (1996)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: Danial Smail

    The Dyestuffs Trade of Fifteenth-Century Southampton
    By Claire E. Suplee (1995)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski
    Reader: John Clark

    Stavelot Triptych: A Medieval Art Object in its Liturgical and Spiritual Contexts
    By Lawrence P. Milliken (1995)
    Mentor: Elizabeth Clarke
    Reader: Ewert Cousins

    Margery Kempe's Familial Suffering: Earthly and Spiritual
    By Claudine Gandolfi (1995)
    Mentor: Mary C. Erler
    Reader: John Clark

    Empress Matilda: A Case Study in Female Rulership in the Twelfth Century
    By Laura L. Gathagan (1994)
    Mentor: Vincent J. Gorman
    Reader: H. Wayne Storey

    Gender, Marriage and Ale Brewing in Small Town and Village Communities in the East Midlands 1287-1312
    By Kevin Larkin (1994)
    Mentor: Maryanne Kowaleski

    The Ethic of Intention of Abelard's Ethica and Its Influence on Concepts of Pure Love in his Romance with Heloise
    By Dave Burokas (1994)
    Mentor: Deal Hudson

    St. Augustine and the Angels
    By Louis DiGiorno (1994)
    Mentor: Deal Hudon

    O Flore Aulorita: A Study of the Narrative Sequence of the Last Days of the Virgin in Duccio's Maesta
    By Pamela Shoemaker (1993)
    Mentor: Joel Herschman
    Reader: Ewert Cousins

    Grosseteste and the Grisaille of Lincoln Cathedral
    By Holly Hager-Gilbert (1993)
    Mentor: Ewert Cousins

    Following in the Footsteps of Christ: Humility and Grace in Dante and Giotto
    By Susan Harper (1993)
    Mentor: Ewert Cousins

    Western Art and the Icon: Abstraction, Naturalism, and Symbolism
    By Malgorzata Urbanek (1992)
    Mentor: Ewert Cousins